Lychee – A Free Photo Management Tool

Lychee is a free photo-management tool, which runs on your server or web-space. Installing is a matter of seconds. Upload, manage and share photos like from a native application. Lychee comes with everything you need and all your photos are stored securely. You can upload, move, rename, describe, delete or search your photos in seconds.… Continue reading Lychee – A Free Photo Management Tool

Fresh and Useful Resources for Sass Users

With such a promising title as syntactically awesome style sheet, this powerful and quite stable version of CSS extension language guarantees that your next project will definitely stay ahead and stand out from others; it won’t suffer from inconveniences caused by old browsers or small screen devices, neither would it come into conflict with other… Continue reading Fresh and Useful Resources for Sass Users

Free Files For November 2014

Each month the Envato marketplace brings you free premium files. Envato is a web marketplace where you can get premium files for different areas of your website. My favourite marketplaces are the script marketplace CodeCanyon and the theme marketplace ThemeForest. Here are the files which you can get for free in November 2014. JBMarket Currency… Continue reading Free Files For November 2014

20 Top Quality Free Web Design Resources

Stay updated with the newest design trends on the web and download the latest top quality free web design resources! We all know that PSD freebies are not only a great source of inspiration, but they will also save us a lot of time! We selected today 20 high quality free web design resources, designers can use in their… Continue reading 20 Top Quality Free Web Design Resources

Monarch: The Leader of a New Generation of Social Plugins

Each and every one of us comes across interesting pieces of information in our daily news feed, or as we are casually surfing the web. At times, we even feel the urge to share some of those articles, videos, images, etc with the people we know. We can either act on it or not, and… Continue reading Monarch: The Leader of a New Generation of Social Plugins

Walkway.js – An easy way to animate simple SVG elements

Walkway.js a small javascript library to animate SVG images consisting of line and path elements in an easy way. How to use Create a new Walkway instance with a supplied options object. When you want to start animating call .draw on the returned instance providing an optional callback that will be called when drawing is… Continue reading Walkway.js – An easy way to animate simple SVG elements

Creating Your First Node.js Command-line Application

Command-line utilities are a must for every seasoned web developer. Node.js makes developing such tools extremely easy thanks to a wealth of open source modules and a great package manager. In this tutorial, we will convert our Cute File Browser, which we published last week, from PHP to Node. Our goal is to create a… Continue reading Creating Your First Node.js Command-line Application

8 Tips for Planning Your Web Design with Sketches

I am sure most of the senior web designers will agree to the fact that sketches are an important part of the design and development process. Sketches not only convey ideas, but also demonstrate functionality, illustrate things that require human interaction, and help to visualize user flow. Did you ever start any design directly in… Continue reading 8 Tips for Planning Your Web Design with Sketches

Guidelines for Building Touch-Supported Website Layouts

It should come as no surprise that people love to pass the time in waiting rooms by fiddling on their smartphones. These little devices have become a technological gateway to a library of applications and a sprawling metropolis of websites. This means a whole lot of people are visiting websites on the smallest screen imaginable… Continue reading Guidelines for Building Touch-Supported Website Layouts

8 tips for designing great posters

Posters have been around from the time of Jules Cheret, the father of   posters, and intriguingly, some of the things that worked back then still work today. A sharp departure from the 1800s, however, is that posters are no longer only meant for the roadside. They can fit anywhere, online or offline. When talking graphic… Continue reading 8 tips for designing great posters

Fresh Free Photoshop PSD Mockups for Designers (27 MockUps)

Download free Photoshop mockup templates to present your creative work in different perspective styles. This new collection have twenty seven PSD mockup designs including logo mockups, branding mockup, business cards, photographic mockups, iPhone 6 and other smart devices mock-ups. Each psd mock-up is fully layered and high quality with smart objects, so you can easily customize them to achieve perfect… Continue reading Fresh Free Photoshop PSD Mockups for Designers (27 MockUps)

20 Modern Mobile App UI Designs October 2014

Interfaces and experiences are two completely different things but go together hand in hand for every design. It is important for any software to look as attractive as it is amazing to experience. Mobile apps since the launch of smart phones have soared to new heights and they do compliment any phone’s usage. User interfaces… Continue reading 20 Modern Mobile App UI Designs October 2014

How to use UI design patterns

Design patterns are optimal solutions to common design problems. As common problems are tossed around a community and are resolved, common solutions often emerge. Eventually, the best of these rise above the din, self-identify, and become refined until they reach the status of a design pattern. I wouldn’t call a design patern a trend in… Continue reading How to use UI design patterns

Best Free WordPress Themes October 2014

It’s time for our monthly roundup of the Best Free WordPress Themes for October 2014. This month I released my own free theme CleanPort Lite, which is a free version of one of our best selling themes on ThemeFurnace – the WordPress.org version has custom icon widgets, multiple homepages so you can use as a… Continue reading Best Free WordPress Themes October 2014

Google Material Design Icons

Google Design are open-sourcing 750 glyphs as part of the Material Design system icons pack. The system icons contain icons commonly used across different apps, such as icons used for media playback, communication, content editing, connectivity, and so on. They’re equally useful when building for the web, Android or iOS. What’s included in the release?… Continue reading Google Material Design Icons

34 Dark iPhone App UI Designs for Inspiration

Apple’s newest operating system has simplified the app design process. Mobile UI design now focuses on flat elements with simple buttons and line icons. Although there are plenty of great apps out there it’s tough to know which ideas are best for UI inspiration. In this gallery you’ll find 34 lucrative dark iPhone application interfaces.… Continue reading 34 Dark iPhone App UI Designs for Inspiration

Free Download: Mobile App Introduction Template

Mobile App Introduction Template is a basic template to showcase the best features of your app, enriched with a video slider for a better user understanding. It’s a customisable, responsive template which turns into video slider on desktop screen. Requirements: – Demo: http://codyhouse.co/demo/app-introduction-template License: License Free

The Guide To UX Design Process & Documentation

Documentation is instrumental for concepting, designing, creating and measuring the performance of products. But it shouldn’t be done just for the sake of maintenance. After all, there’s nothing about a thick stack of paperwork which resembles the experience of your real product. As Lean UX advocate Jeff Gothelf describes in a piece for Smashing Magazine,… Continue reading The Guide To UX Design Process & Documentation

6 stunning HTML5, CSS3 and responsive website templates

There is no denying, Responsive Web Design or RWD has quickly become a household name in web design. It pretty much went from being completely unknown to something every web designer can comment on. Today, if you are not using some sort of responsive design on your site, then chances are you are going to… Continue reading 6 stunning HTML5, CSS3 and responsive website templates

Zombie Effect Tutorial in Photoshop

Good day, artists! In light of the Halloween season, we are here to present you a terrifying zombie effect Photoshop tutorial. Let us turn an image of a beautiful woman into a horrifying walking dead in 15 simple steps. Before we start, click the Download button below to access the resource folder that contains everything you’ll need for this tutorial.… Continue reading Zombie Effect Tutorial in Photoshop

How to Create Spooky Halloween Typography in Photoshop

As autumn approaches in much of the world, we know that many artists are beginning to think about Halloween, especially artists that live in the U.S. In this tutorial, we will explain how to create slimy, gooey, and drippy Halloween typography in Photoshop. We will then incorporate that typography into a poster design. Let’s get… Continue reading How to Create Spooky Halloween Typography in Photoshop

Discover New Fonts and Colors with Every Tab

Palletab is a Chrome extension which uses Google fonts and amazing ColourLovers palettes to inspire you with fresh and clean inspiration every time you hit that new tab button. It’s a great tool for finding the suitable fonts for your websites or web applications. Requirements: Chrome Demo: http://palettab.com/ License: License Free

Top 6 personal project management tools

Generally, project management involves some form of teamwork. But often times there are 1-man projects that can be hard to manage, too. If the project is quite simple, then old to-do lists can do the trick. But if it’s pretty complex then you simply cannot do without a project management tool. We surveyed our friends… Continue reading Top 6 personal project management tools